Treasure Island
Platform: TI-99/4A
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: Joystick
Genre: Arcade - Action - Adventure
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1984
Developer: Data East
Publisher: Texas Instruments
Players: 1
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Treasure Island is sinking! Your only hope for survival lies at the top of the island. Can you grab the treasures and escape the monsters and gorillas in time to climb to safety?

Trivia:

This game is a port of Data East's 1981 arcade game Treasure Island.

A prototype version of this game exists, where the enemies are nicely drawn multi-colored cavemen instead of single-colored monsters. The only logical reason for why Data East chose to go with the monsters was due to game speed, since the cavemen are made up of 3 sprites and and the monsters only 1 sprite. The more sprites that exist on screen sometimes slow the pace of the game down and cause the characters to flicker. It's really a shame that the sprites were reduced, since the cavemen looked pretty cool in the original version.
